About Diane
Diane McCollum brings more than 20 years of counseling experience to her work in Texas. She holds licenses as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT).
Background and approach
Diane approaches sessions with directness and warmth and sees clients as people trying to move through hard life transitions. She believes a good therapeutic relationship is built on respect, honesty, clear communication, and boundaries.
Diane draws on a family systems perspective while keeping the conversation grounded and practical. She treats trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, stress, and self-esteem concerns among other issues.
Diane helps people untangle how the past influences their present. She encourages clients to set their own goals and works alongside them to reach those aims.
Sessions emphasize understanding feelings, learning new ways to respond, and practicing small behavior changes that add up over time. Her style mixes client-centered talk with structured tools when helpful.
Diane uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness techniques to support coping and change. She also addresses relationship patterns, parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and blended family challenges.
Clients can expect a clinician who listens, reflects, and offers options rather than one-size-fits-all answers. Diane aims to role model dignity and compassion while helping people build clearer communication and more effective coping skills.
How Diane’s Approaches Work Online
Diane draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters to them and take small, values-based steps toward those goals. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by focusing on actions rather than trying to eliminate difficult feelings.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice different responses. CBT helps with stress, low mood, and managing symptoms of ADHD by teaching concrete strategies and skills for daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Diane will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then collaborate on a plan that blends methods that fit best. This is a team effort where the client’s priorities guide the choices about techniques and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people see facial cues and practice interactions, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people fit sessions into busy lives and choose the format that helps them engage most effectively.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English